Home on the Range

When a resurrected sorcerer seeks to make Hellboy fulfill his destiny, that sorcerer, of course, is none other than Rasputin, fulfill his destiny by triggering the apocalypse.

Hellboy opened on April 2nd, 2004 against Walking Tall, Scooby-Doo! Monsters Unleashed, Home on the Range, The Passion of the Christ, and The Prince and Me.

Ah.

[laughs]

And if you look at the poster art, you see a wide spectrum of Disney films that are represented here, from Inside Out to Zootopia, Lion King, Little Mermaid, Alice in Wonderland.

Man, I think that is a Home on the Range bull.

I might be wrong.

[laughs]

It's a, yeah.

Home on the Range.

I forgot all...

This is Disney?

This is Disney.

Home on the Range.

Oh, is this Pixar? Is this around the time of Bolt and, uh, Brother Bear and-

This is before, or it's after Brother Bear but before Bolt.

What?

Home on the Range.

Oh, yes.

Love it.

... jigging along to the first two minutes-

... that-

... of Home on the Range

... people can watch very, very young, and a bit older.

Um, uh, they are making Chicken Little.

They're making Home on the Range in 2004.

They're making Chicken Little 2005, '06.

They're making Bolt.

For to me, this film also dramatizes the relationship between typical and classic Disney, which we've talked about on the podcast before.

Mm-hmm.

Which is classic is this periodization, what Dis- uh, Chris Panic calls the Disney formalist period, and then the typical Disney, in that, that Disney, a t- a more typical Disney film is Home on the Range because more films are not princess films than are princess films.

So there is a tension between-

So I know you've worked on a couple.

It was like, you know, from Home on the Range to Brother Bear to Lilo and Stitch, Mulan, Emperor's New Groove.

You know, you touched on a lot of these projects.

So it sounds like you kind of come in and they, is this how it usually works? When you, they give you an idea of like what they are picturing in their heads.

You know, Disney officially has this in the canon of animated features, but it's 42 minutes and about 10 minutes are live-action.

I count them, so like... quarter of the movie but you know it's on this list of animated features and I think it kind of is unique it's certainly better than Home on the Range and better

than Dinosaur and also Chicken Little

yeah so I think it's better than everything we've talked about so far and frankly a lot of the ones coming up but I'll watch those again with an open mind and You know, I think this is early on in feature animation.

and the families that would propel it to, like, even emoji movie numbers stayed home.

Just for comparison's sake, its 12.8 million opening is below Smurfs the Lost Village, Ferdinand, Home on the Range, The Prince of Egypt, Curious George, and Freebirds, as well as Barnyard and Wonder Park.

So...

Stop! Stop! Not the best company.

Is-

... is-

Home on the Range not on.

[laughs]

Is Wish?